Wild Garlic on Eigg

Wild Garlic
grows in the deciduous woodland on Eigg


  • The House
  • Out of Season
  • The Tophouse Picture Gallery

About the Tophouse

The house dates from the 1820s, and has been improved many times since, most recently in 2009 when a new porch was built. However it retains many original features. The thick stone exterior walls, clad internally in wooden panelling, are all original.

Downstairs

The roomy accommodation is ideally suited for a family holiday. It consists of a large entrance porch with shower room and WC. A washing machine is plumbed in one corner. Off the hall is a kitchen/dining room with a fridge, double-drainer sink, fitted cupboards, a gas cooker and a multi-fuel enclosed stove with back boiler, which provides ample hot water, and a drying rack. The sitting room opens off the other end of the hall with a multi-fuel enclosed stove and furnished with two comfortable settees and chairs as well as a chest of drawers containing games for wet days. There is an extensive library which will give you an insight into Eigg; its history, archaeology, nature and traditions. There is a Wi-Fi connection which also powers an internet 'phone, allowing you to make calls free of charge within the UK and Europe. A nursery fireguard is stored behind one of the settees. A small bedroom with double bed and chest of drawers leads off the sitting room. Electricity, gas and smokeless coal for both fires, is included in the rent.

Upstairs

Up a steep traditional staircase there are two bedrooms with sea views; one with a double (4'6") bed and two chest of drawers, the other with three single beds and a chest of drawers. A cot is stored under one of the beds and can be erected if required. The bathroom, with bath, wash-basin and WC is also upstairs.

Linen, including towels, is supplied free of charge.

There is a fenced garden in front of the house with panoramic views over the sea to Rum and on a clear day to the outer isles.

The Top House in WinterVisiting out of Season

"A visit to Eigg in the Winter can be very special"

The Tophouse is suited to visitors at all times of the year. The efficient multi-fuel stoves ensure that the house is always warm. Eigg offers out-of-season visitors some rare delights. The long shadows of the winter sunshine on the cinnamon bracken and the autumn and winter colours make this a very special time of year

Winter Sailings

Cal Mac run a winter timetable from the October till March.

MV Sheerwater does not run during the winter season.

If you are planning a trip outside the main holiday season, do plan your visit carefully to fit in with the winter ferrry timetable.

 

 

Further views of the house and facilities

The DIning Room      
The Kitchen/Dining Room
     
The Sitting Room
The Shower Room       The Porch with a view of An Sgurr
Downstairs Shower Room
     
Porch with View of An Sgurr

 

Master Bedroom       Bedroom for three
Master Bedroom
     
Bedroom for three
      Bluebells at the Tophouse
Hall and Staircase
     
Bluebells at the Tophouse
The fenced front garden      
The Kildonan Garlic Woods
Fenced Front Garden

Sunset over Rum

     
A walk through the garlic woods at Kildonnan  

Sunset over rum May 2012

Sunset from the Singing Sands
     
Sunset over Rum
Basalt Cliffs on East of the Island       Dolphin from Sheerwater
Basalt Cliffs on east side of the Island
 
     
Dolphins are frequently seen in the seas between the mainland and Eigg